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About me

I was born in Brescia, Italy, where I completed my studies in B.Sc. Information Engineering and later M.Sc Informatics Engineering. I came to Freiburg to write my Master Thesis, under the supervision of Dr. Marco Ragni. During my time in Freiburg I developed a cognitive agent, based on the cognitive architecture ACT-R and the robotic system Lego Mindstorms, with the aim to better understand human navigation in labyrinths. After completing my studies I continued my research in Freiburg as part of the SFB-TR8 Cspace project. I am currently working on a computer-vision-based perceptual system for ACT-R, as well as investigating the relation between perception and planning, using the planning problem Rush-Hour as testbed.

The SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition is an interdisciplinary collaborative research center located at the University of Bremen and the University of Freiburg. It has been funded by German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2003.

More than 70 researchers from different disciplines, e.g. informatics, psychology, and linguistics, investigate human cognitive structures and abilities concerning space as well as basic structures to deal with spatial information. In terms of application they want to utilize these findings for software of autonomous systems.